Before the announcement of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction in September, it is worth returning to Susanna Clarke’s second novel, Piranesi. In it, she has created a distinctly Beckettian dreamworld: ostensibly inescapable, possibly constitutive of the whole world — … Continue reading “As if merit was a function of chronology!”: Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi
Autofiction is having its moment and if you haven’t noticed you’ve been reading on autopilot. Described as the collision of autobiography and fiction, autofiction has been criticized as lazy, self-indulgent and downright solipsistic. Reading autofiction can feel like being pranked … Continue reading Can I Believe Her? A Piece on Autofiction
Originally published in print March 2020. 10:04 begins with moneytalk. Ben Lerner – the autofictional Ben Lerner – discusses with his agent the “six figure deal” she has negotiated for him on the strength of his debut novel and a … Continue reading Is 10:04 Art Writing? What Is Art Writing?
Originally published in print February 2021. This story is part of TN2’s ongoing flash fiction series, which aims to give a platform to exciting new writers from Trinity. If you would like your fiction to be considered for publication, simply … Continue reading “In Untended” // Flash Fiction
Originally published in print February 2021. The couple of Bryan Washington’s Memorial have a problem: they still love each other and they both know it. This is the complication of the novel as told by Benson, whose boyfriend, Mike, … Continue reading Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial’ // A New Way of Telling an Old Story
If I had a euro for every time someone said to me, “So, you didn’t want a job” after I told them I studied Classics, I would probably be able to repay my student debt. Studying ancient cultures and languages … Continue reading The Importance of Mythology
I had first read the phrase ‘corpsing’ in Anne Enright’s novel Actress. It refers to the moment when an actor breaks character as if their role … Continue reading Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White // Review
TN2 Magazine’s ‘Fiction Club’ is a monthly forum for writers to read, discuss and dissect selected works. To suggest a piece of literature for consideration contact literature@tn2magazine.ie ‘Macadam’ is a length of prose recounting the narrator’s memory of a road … Continue reading ‘Macadam’ by Lucia Berlin // Fiction Club 3
Originally published in print December 2020. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!” – A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens It is fitting that Ebenezer Scrooge’s Christmas journey of … Continue reading Time Out of Mind: How Victorian Writers Invented Christmas
Originally published in print November 2020. When Sally Rooney’s debut was released, she was “the Salinger for the Snapchat generation”. When Naoise Dolan’s first book was published, The Irish Times promised Exciting Times would “fill the Sally Rooney-shaped hole in … Continue reading The Weirdness of Capitalism in ‘Conversations with Friends’ and ‘Exciting Times’
Originally published in print November 2020. This story is part of TN2’s ongoing flash fiction series, which aims to give a platform to exciting new writers from Trinity. If you would like your fiction to be considered for publication, simply … Continue reading In a Nickname // Flash Fiction
These days in Ireland, Croatia is perhaps best known as a filming location for Game of Thrones and for its ‘party islands’ frequented by lads who model their lifestyle off the characters from Peaky Blinders. Needless to say, this astonishingly narrow view obscures a rich literary tradition (among many, many, many other things), and so in this piece I hope to introduce you to a brief chronological survey of Croatian language literature. A survey such as this is complicated by numerous factors. Most notably, South Slavic literature can be very difficult to find in English translation. Hugely significant nineteenth century … Continue reading An Introduction to Croatian Literature